Fahem Boukadous

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For those who have spent countless hours exposing and combating
Tunisia's vast press freedom abuses, today is truly a glorious day. Tunisian
authorities released the ailing imprisoned journalist Fahem Boukadous,
a day after CPJ called on
the transitional government to honor its pledge to free all political
prisoners. Today, we can loudly proclaim that no journalist or blogger is
imprisoned in the government's dungeons and that Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's censorship
is no longer imposed on Tunisians.

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New York, January 18, 2011--Tunisia's transitional government
should immediately release Fahem Boukadous, a television reporter imprisoned
last year in reprisal for his work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said
today. CPJ also offered condolences to the family and colleagues of French
photographer Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, who died of head injuries suffered while
covering the civil unrest in the capital, Tunis.

New York, October 21, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely concerned about the health of imprisoned Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous. We call upon the Tunisian government to release him immediately.

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Tunisian police arrested
Fahem Boukadous, a widely respected critical journalist, on July 15. Before his
arrest, Boukadous wrote an open letter from the hospital, where he was being treated for acute asthma. On the evening he
was taken to Gafsa prison, his wife, Afaf Bennacer, wrote an article about what
happened that has been circulated on multiple Arabic websites. Below is CPJ's
translation:

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News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, July 2010

Cuba
begins releasing journalists

For weeks, CPJ staff had been getting hints that Cuba, under a
deal brokered by the Catholic Church and Spanish government, would release
imprisoned journalists and political dissidents. Some families had been told to
buy suits for their jailed loved ones, a sure sign that something was up. After
years of painstaking reporting, contact-building and campaigning on Cuba, we
were in a great position to move quickly when at last on July
13 the Cuban authorities put six journalists on a plane for Madrid. CPJ
Europe Consultant Borja Bergareche was there to welcome the new exiles, the
first in what is expected to be a series of releases by the Castro regime. Three
more journalists have since been freed. Prior to the releases, CPJ research had
identified 21 journalists in Cuban prisons for their independent reporting and
commentary. All but one of the journalists had been detained in March 2003, in
the massive government crackdown on political dissent and independent
journalism that came to be known as the Black Spring.

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New York, July 15, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Tunisian authorities to immediately release Fahem Boukadous, a correspondent for the satellite television station Al-Hiwar al-Tunisi, and to overturn his four-year prison sentence.

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You are all no doubt
aware of what I went through this past week. Indeed, though I suffered an acute asthmatic attack that necessitated
sending me to the Farhat Hached Teaching Hospital in Sousse from July 3,
the Gafsa Court of Appeals insisted on sentencing me to a four-year prison
term. It took no notice of the hospitalization certificate presented to it by
my lawyer, thus contravening one of the basic principles of a fair trial.

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New York, July 6, 2010—An appeals court in Tunisia today upheld a criminal
conviction and prison sentence handed down to Fahem Boukadous, a correspondent for the satellite television
station Al-Hiwar al-Tunisi,
in connection with his coverage of violent labor protests in the Gafsa
mining region in 2008.